Come on, man, you don’t have room in your heart for the Dean Martin/Ricky Nelson duet of “My Rifle, My Pony and Me” with Walter Brennan on harmonica? And then Wayne kisses Brennan on the head?!

Maybe you don’t have the right context for late-period Hawks. It was all about hanging out with the characters for him by this point — he was convinced that every story worth telling had already been told, so he deemphasized narrative to a degree that can be off-putting at first. But if you approach it from the proper angle, Rio Bravo is one of the greatest entertainments ever to come out of Hollywood.